Food System Resilience and Sustainability in Cambodia

Joseph Messina, Tanita Suepa, Sieglinde Snapp, Jennifer Olson, A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi, Sarah Murray, Nathan Moore, April Frake, Peilei Fan, Umesh Adhikari

Source Title: International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR)8(3)

ISSN: 1947-9654|EISSN: 1947-9662|EISBN13: 9781522513193|DOI: 10.4018/ijagr.2017070104

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Messina, Joseph, et al. "Food System Resilience and Sustainability in Cambodia." IJAGR vol.8, no.3 2017: pp.1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2017070104

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Messina, J., Suepa, T., Snapp, S., Olson, J., Nejadhashemi, A. P., Murray, S., Moore, N., Frake, A., Fan, P., & Adhikari, U. (2017). Food System Resilience and Sustainability in Cambodia. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR), 8(3), 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2017070104

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Messina, Joseph, et al. "Food System Resilience and Sustainability in Cambodia," International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research (IJAGR) 8, no.3: 1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2017070104

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Abstract

Cambodia is witnessing a “Goldilocks moment” in demographic change concurrent with shifts in land use, hydrology, and climate. These trends interact and affect food production, food costs, and food security. Drivers of these trends are typically examined separately with interacting factors considered along disciplinary margins. While science models to explore these interacting effects have been proposed, there remains an applied research gap in integrating these pieces and assessing interdisciplinary opportunities for developing food security solutions. Developed following a request from USAID to elucidate food security conditions in Cambodia, here the authors present their geospatial synthesis of the biophysical and socioeconomic drivers of current food security risk, as well as explore future trends for those conditions. The overall structure shows several interlocking or mutually reinforcing trends in systems that point towards a significant intensification of food insecurity in the near future. They offer an assessment of future targets for food systems innovation.